LONG PRISON TERM
PENALTY FOR DESERTION . (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. A sentence of 20 months' imprisonment with hard labour has been imposed on Private Winston Andrew Boag on a charge of desertion. He was absent without leave from October 29. 1940. until he surrendered to the civil police at Frankton Junction dressed in civilian clothes on November 6, 1941. He was found guilty of this charge by a district court-martial which sat at Trentham on Thursday. Boag was found not guilty on a charge of desertion from the 22nd Battalion, Second N.Z.E.F., at Trentham on April 7, 1940. In connection with this charge it was disclosed at the proceedings that Boag was absent from camp for 223 days from April 7, 1940, until he was arrested in Auckland while engaged with a construction company. Brought back to Trentham. he escaped while under arrest and was absent a year and nine days before he surrendered himself. The charges were heard separately, a verdict of not guilty being returned on the first charge
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 280, 26 November 1941, Page 8
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170LONG PRISON TERM Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 280, 26 November 1941, Page 8
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